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Our Serpent Mother, Our Filth Mother: Serpents and the Slippery Earth in Mesoamerican Mythology

A part of The Serpentine Path series of classes curated by Spiritus Arcanum. this class will be live-streamed at 7pm on June 22nd. It will also be recorded and sent out afterwards for later viewing. 

About the class:

In Mesoamerican cosmology, the mother deities such as Coatlicue (Serpent-Skirt), Cihuacoatl (Serpent-Woman), and Toci-Tlazolteotl (Our Grandmother Eater of Filth) are heavily associated with the earth energy known as tlazolli, and always associated with serpents. Fertility, lust, creativity, deviousness and cunning and the struggle to maintain ourselves are all tied together in these conceptions– the earth is crawling with serpent energy! Drawing upon Aztec myth and the traditions of curanderismo and brujeria that inherit these worldviews in Mexico, we will explore the relationship to our Mother the Earth, the serpent and its shed, and the manipulation tlazolli and our bodily and spiritual health, in order to walk upright on this slippery earth who is our Serpent Mother, our Filth Mother.

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